On 2/28/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
To an
extent they are right for the wrong reasons. Would the lecturers
have told her not to use Britannica? What students should learn right
away in a short course at the beginning of a university career is how to
evaluate resources. Better still such a course should reiinforce things
that are better learned much earlier. How much she can push the
boundary may depend on her personality, and how open-minded the
lecturers are.
I think I would have been shot if I had ever referred to Britannica.
I had a whole university library available to me, and no excuse to
skimp.